Recorded answers
3,528 recorded answers
How to approach it
Work outward from the ordinary to the exceptional. Begin by listing the obvious dishes anyone would shout first, then deliberately discard them, because the recorded list is built almost entirely from entries that a normal shopper would never think of. Switch to the registers that generate thousands of names: protected regional products, farmhouse cheeses, cured meats, biscuits, fruit varieties, preserves, sweets and drinks. For each one, ask whether it has a documented local identity and a name longer than one word. If a candidate feels like something you would find in a village shop or on a monastery table rather than a supermarket, write it down. Quantity matters here, so keep producing variations of the same theme instead of hunting for one perfect answer, and prefer the spelling used by the producer.
Get a hint
Start from the widest map of what the two cuisines actually produce, from everyday staples and farmhouse dairy to festival baking and preserved fruit, then notice how many carry a place in their name.
A little more
Narrow the field to certified regional products, artisan dairy and cured meats, small-batch preserves and old bakery specialities whose fame never travelled beyond their own district.
One step further
Finally think of single-variety produce and monastic or farmhouse cheeses with an appellation, plus the sort of sweet that exists in one village only; the more precise the name, the better it fares.
Reveal answers 3,528
- Cœur du BerryDeep Cut85points
- Coffee and walnut cakeDeep Cut85points
- Coffee creamsDeep Cut85points
- Cola cubesDeep Cut85points
- Colchester oystersDeep Cut85points
- Collier de mogettesDeep Cut85points
- Collier's cheddarDeep Cut85points
- CollopsDeep Cut85points
- ColombierDeep Cut85points
- ColomboDeep Cut85points
- Colston bunDeep Cut85points
- Coltsfoot RockDeep Cut85points
- Comber potatoesDeep Cut85points
- CompoteDeep Cut85points
- Compound butterDeep Cut85points
- ComtesseDeep Cut85points
- Comtesse de VichyDeep Cut85points
- Conference pearDeep Cut85points
- Confit byaldiDeep Cut85points
- Confit d'ÉpoissesDeep Cut85points
- Confit d'oieDeep Cut85points
- Confit d'oignonsDeep Cut85points
- Confiture de laitDeep Cut85points
- Congre à la bretonneDeep Cut85points
- Consommé CélestineDeep Cut85points
- Conwy musselsDeep Cut85points
- Coppa de CorseDeep Cut85points
- Coq à la bièreDeep Cut85points
- Coq au RieslingDeep Cut85points
- Coq au vin jauneDeep Cut85points
- CoquetdaleDeep Cut85points
- Coquilles de poissonDeep Cut85points
- Coquilles Saint-Jacques à la normandeDeep Cut85points
- Coquillettes au jambonDeep Cut85points
- CormeillaisDeep Cut85points
- Corned beef hashDeep Cut85points
- Corned beef pieDeep Cut85points
- Cornet dDeep Cut85points
- Cornet de MuratDeep Cut85points
- Cornflake cakeDeep Cut85points
- Cornflake tartDeep Cut85points
- CornillyDeep Cut85points
- CorniotteDeep Cut85points
- Cornish AromaticDeep Cut85points
- Cornish BlueDeep Cut85points
- Cornish BrieDeep Cut85points
- Cornish fairingDeep Cut85points
- Cornish GilliflowerDeep Cut85points
- Cornish ice creamDeep Cut85points
- Cornish KernDeep Cut85points
Why these answers count
The shape of the reveal says almost everything. Out of 3,495 recorded answers, 3,430 reached sixty points or better, and 2,728 of those landed on the same eighty-five-point shelf. That enormous middle band is where the game lives: any candidate specific enough to be verifiable and obscure enough to feel like local knowledge scored well, whether it was Bedfordshire clanger (100), Abbaye de Belloc (85) or Aberdeen buttery (85). The single hundred-point outlier shows the ceiling is reserved for the pick that almost nobody else found. At the other end, 701 answers stopped at sixty points, and those are the safe, obvious shouts that thousands of players produce at once. Rarity, not fame, drives the score here. A named farmhouse cheese, a village bake or a protected fruit variety outranks a dish everyone learned at school, because the scoring rewards the answer the crowd missed. Aim for precision and specificity, and accept that a long, half-forgotten name usually beats the famous one.